Awake: 7:05am Temp 46 sleep 6+26 mostly sunny overnight @
Brownsville, TX.
Mid morning, Kathy calls the ole Confederate Air Force Museum in
Brownsville to establish if they are open today……they are. Then early
afternoon, we drive the Suzuki to the Brownsville/South Padre Island
Airport where a wing of the CAF is located. This museum is a fraction of
the size of the relocated CAF museum now is Midland, TX. However for its
smaller size, there were plenty of WWII memorabilia to see & to read
about. Probably the most interesting thing for me was the 30 min movie
they showed of how the CAF (now called the Commerative Flying Air
Force)began & how they keep the aircraft flying using mostly volunteers.
All total, we spent about 2.0 hrs there.
Since we are already in South Brownsville, we might as well check out
South Padre Island, which has a population of 2,422 people & located 19
miles from this CAF museum. This area of Harlingen & Brownsville etc, is
very flat, so when crossing a bridge that has a vertical clearance for
ships, one can see for miles. En route to SPI, & crossing over the Laguna
Madre Causeway, the bridge gave us the lift necessary to view nearly the
entire 110 mile length of the island before arriving. The width of the
island? maybe a mile if that much.
We drive north, then south, looking @ the numerous beach related stores,
high rise hotels & privately owned condos + homes; many of the condos had
“for sale” signs attached. Kathy wanted to check out the beach on the east
side, so we stop near a hotel with beach access. She gets out, walks about
20 ft, stops & returns to our car. She reports that the sand was blown up
so high on the sidewalk that it made walking difficult (most likely from
the strong winds on Sunday). The sea was very rough with very high waves.
Our Lady Garmin brings us back to our bus by the shortest routing. For
exercise & curiosity, we walk the Winter Haven Campground for an hr.
9:40 dinner: Sword fish with leftover broccoli casserole, brown rice pilaf
& garlic bread.
Late satellite movie: “Baby Face” with Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent,
Donald Cook, John Wayne, etc. It begins with Stanwyck bartending @ a
speakeasy, then literally sleeping her way floor by floor to the top of a
N.Y.C. office building. 1933. Quite shocking it was; the Legion of Decency
had to do some strong editing to clean it up @ that time. Recently though,
the classic film group got a hold of the original uncut version & this is
the one we viewed. By today’s standards however, it was mild.
High temp=61 Lights out: 11:40pm
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